具体描述
Drawing together leading scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this collection reports the leading edge of research and analysis into the contemporary urban condition. With more than half of the world's population living in urban environments, cities are places of huge complexity and diversity and the processes and structures that bind them together reach out across the globe.
This volume considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. Whilst considering established themes, such as urban divisions and differences, publics and cultures, politics and planning, the New Blackwell Companion to the City also addresses new debates on subjects like materiality, mobilities, and environment.
Incorporating international examples, this book explores the economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues that flow from and within the modern city.
作者简介
Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010).
Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.
目录信息
1 Refl ections on Materialities 3
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15
Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner
3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26
John Rennie Short
4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York
in the Twenty-First Century 38
Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe
5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48
Amrita Shah
6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern
Metropolis 57
Matthew Gandy
7 Objects and the City 66
Harvey Molotch
8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in
Singapore 79
Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns
9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and
New Beginnings 96
Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw
10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108
Peter Droege
11 The New Military Urbanism 121
Stephen Graham
12 The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai:
A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134
Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker
13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142
Ray Forrest
Part II City Mobilities 155
14 Refl ections on Mobilities 157
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and
Politics of Urban Population Control 169
Andrew Ross
16 Transnationality and the City 179
Nina Glick Schiller
17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193
Tyler Rooker
18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the
Global City 210
Saskia Sassen
19 Nomadic Cities 221
David Pinder
20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the
Modern City 235
Francis Dodsworth
21 Disease and Infection in the City 245
Simon Carter
22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics
of Space 255
Daniel J. Walkowitz
23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265
Brian Ladd
Part III City Affect 275
24 Refl ections on Affect 277
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfi eld, the Uncanny, and the
Always Near Collapse of the City 288
Steve Pile
26 The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions,
and Premonitions after 9/11 304
Max Page
27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in
Twenty-First-Century China 317
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s
Cinematic Hong Kong 327
Christoph Lindner
29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337
Lesley Caldwell
30 City Life and the Senses 347
John Urry
31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect,
Bodies 357
AbdouMaliq Simone
32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious
Spaces 367
Andrew Hill
Part IV City Publics and Cultures 377
33 Refl ections on Publics and Cultures 379
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
34 Refl ections on the Public Realm 390
Richard Sennett
35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital
of the Twenty-First Century? 398
Michael Keith
36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference 407
Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher
37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419
Judith R. Walkowitz
38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s
and 1960s 431
Frank Mort
39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442
Rob Stone
40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural
Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 452
Lily Kong
41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 463
Setha Low
42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 476
John Paul Jones III
43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne
Chronicle 488
Benjamin Rossiter and Katherine Gibson
Part V City Divisions and Differences 499
44 Refl ections on Division and Difference 501
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 511
Mike Savage
46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism
Through Southern Cities 521
Jenny Robinson and Sue Parnell
47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 532
Jeremy Seekings
48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the
Transnational Imaginary 547
Ato Quayson
49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 561
Sharon Zukin
50 Gentrifi cation of the City 571
Tom Slater
51 The Homosexuality of Cities 586
Julie Abraham
52 Gendering Urban Space 596
Jessica Ellen Sewell
53 Nights in the Global City 606
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part VI City Politics and Planning 617
54 Refl ections on Politics and Planning 619
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 631
Ash Amin
56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 643
Peter Marcuse
57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and
from Below 656
Anthony Vidler
58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens 667
Evelyn S. Ruppert
59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 679
Edward W. Soja
60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in
China’s Cities 690
John Friedmann
61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the
Making 701
Fulong Wu
62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and
Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 713
Roger Keil
63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the
Making Mobile of Policies 726
Kevin Ward
64 Making Up Global Urban Policies 738
Allan Cochrane
65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 747
Patrick Le Galès
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用户评价
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